Forget the tired, poor, huddled masses. It turns out we are importing immigrants from around the world who will on average outlive U.S. born residents by more than three years (at least that is until the ‘anti-longevity among those with an accent’ language gets inserted into the Patriot Act).

Immigrants are more likely to be poor and less likely to make regular visits to a doctor. So what gives? It turns out that immigrants tend to smoke less, eat less fast food and spend less time sitting around. But the move to the U.S. is key as well (although, for optimal results, assimilation should stop at the drive-thru entrance). By far the best case scenario is to be born elsewhere and to move to America at some point.

Davenetics by Dave Pell

Welcome to Dave Pell's Davenetics, the Official Blog of the Next Five Minutes. Dave is an old school blogger. It all started with Davenetics, but then grew into a suite of blogs and brands including Electablog (politics) and NextDraft (newsletter). These days, Dave almost all of his blogging at Tweetage Wasteland, a look at the realtime web that is syndicated by Forbes, NPR, Gizmodo and others. Dave is also the founder of Rollyo and Addictomatic, an investor/adviser for several start-ups, and the husband of Gina Pell.